http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning labels depicting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-cigarette.html Health Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:44:18 EST news282926652 The cost and health benefits of getting people not to smoke and better still, not to start, more than outweigh the taxes the tobacco industry pays to governments, the European Commission said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-health-bills-lost-tax-eu.html Health Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:00:02 EST news281018480 (AP)—The unofficial spokesman for the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas has died of a heart attack. He was the second unpaid mascot to die in the past two years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-heart-grill-fan-dies.html Health Wed, 13 Feb 2013 04:40:01 EST news279951066 Uruguay faces its first hearings in the French capital this week in a lawsuit filed by US tobacco giant Philip Morris International against its anti-smoking laws, an official said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-uruguay-anti-smoking.html Other Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:40:01 EST news279217770 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers from the University of Adelaide say any health warnings about soft drinks should include the risk of tooth decay, following a new study that looks at the consumption of sweet drinks and fluoridated water by Australian children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-sweet-tooth.html Dentistry Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:18:54 EST news278756327 Thousands of tobacconists from across Europe marched on European Union headquarters on Tuesday to protest against a planned EU crackdown on smoking that includes grueseome health warnings placarded on packets. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-europe-tobacconists-eu-crackdown.html Health Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:53:56 EST news278067231 With menthol cigarettes to be banned and cigarette packs sold with repulsive images of rotting lungs, the European Union released new anti-tobacco proposals Wednesday, the first in over a decade. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-eu-short-brand.html Health Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:42:53 EST news275128968 The prevalence of tobacco smuggling in Europe is lower than industry figures suggest, reveals the largest study of its kind, published online in Tobacco Control. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-tobacco-smuggling-europe-industry-figures.html Addiction Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:30:06 EST news274381846 (AP)—A federal appeals court has denied the government's request to rehear a challenge to a requirement that tobacco companies put large graphic health warnings on cigarette packages. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-court-denies-rehearing-cigarette.html Health Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:33:31 EST news273929598 A law forcing tobacco firms to sell cigarettes in plain packets came into effect in Australia on Saturday in an effort to strip any glamour from smoking and prevent young people from taking up the habit. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-australia-plain-packaging-cigarettes.html Health Sat, 01 Dec 2012 06:30:01 EST news273565020 All cigarettes sold in Australia will be in identical, plain packages from Saturday in a world first after the government overcame legal challenges from the tobacco industry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-australia-readies-plain-cigarettes.html Health Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:05:22 EST news273481509 High cigarette prices, smoke-free air laws, marketing restrictions and other measures, all part of Brazil's strong tobacco control policies, are credited for a 50 percent reduction in smoking prevalence between 1989 and 2010. The reduction contributed to an estimated 420,000 lives saved during that time period. Those are the findings of a new study published today in PLOS Medicine by a team of researchers from Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Brazilian National Cancer Institute. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-strong-tobacco-policies-brazil-credited.html Health Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:00:16 EST news271417538 (AP)—The U.S. government is asking a federal appeals court to rehear a challenge to a requirement that tobacco companies to put large graphic health warnings on cigarette packages. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-feds-full-court-cigarette.html Health Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:42:19 EST news269012532 (AP)—A Norwegian court has upheld a ban on the display of tobacco products in stores, handing a defeat Friday to the Philip Morris company. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-norway-court-tobacco.html Health Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:26:05 EST news266840757 (AP)—A visitor to Yosemite National Park has recovered after becoming the ninth person diagnosed with a deadly rodent-borne illness blamed for three deaths among those who spent time at the park this summer, officials said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-yosemite-visitor-recovered-virus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:55:29 EST news266835324 Australia slammed as a "sick joke" Wednesday new cigarette packs on sale as part of the national phase-in to plain packaging which play on drab branding and claim it's "what's on the inside that counts." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-australia-slams-sick-cigarette.html Health Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:20:02 EST news266641439 (AP)—An appeals court on Friday upheld a decision barring the U.S. government from requiring tobacco companies to put large graphic health warnings on cigarette packages to show that smoking can disfigure and even kill. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-court-block-graphic-cigarette.html Addiction Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:50:01 EST news265027320 An Australian state was Wednesday considering a ban on cigarette sales to anyone born after the year 2000 in an initiative that would see a "tobacco-free generation". http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-australian-state-mulls-cigarette-sales.html Addiction Wed, 22 Aug 2012 05:51:15 EST news264833469 British American Tobacco (BAT) launched an advertising campaign in New Zealand Wednesday opposing plans to introduce plain packaging, in a move the government immediately dismissed as a waste of money. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-tobacco-ad-blitz-zealand-branding.html Addiction Wed, 22 Aug 2012 03:08:01 EST news264823672 Health advocates declared a "brave new world of tobacco control" following Australia's historic packaging victory over the cigarette industry, but analysts warn that smoking is far from a dying trade. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-plain-packets-loom-puff-left.html Health Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:30:01 EST news264552776 The European Commission said on Thursday it too could shortly make legislative proposals that would force manufacturers to distribute tobacco products across Europe in plain packaging. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-eu-plain-packaging-law-tobacco.html Health Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:33:15 EST news264328379 New research published online in the scientific journal Addiction shows that plain packaging (requiring cigarettes to be packaged in standard packages without attractive designs and imagery) may help to draw the attention of some adolescent smokers to the health warnings on the package. If so, this may in turn deter young smokers from continuing to smoke. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-plain-packaging-cigarettes-young-smokers.html Addiction Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:00:02 EST news263568605 Australia said Friday it would "vigorously defend" itself against complaints about its plan for plain cigarette packaging made by Honduras and Ukraine to the World Trade Organisation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-australia-defiant-wto-cigarette.html Health Fri, 25 May 2012 07:47:13 EST news257150818 Health warnings on cigarette packs can help ex-smokers stave off the urge to start smoking again, indicates research published online in Tobacco Control. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-cigarette-health-ex-smokers-stave-urge.html Addiction Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:30:02 EST news254592712 Australian judges hearing a legal challenge to new laws requiring plain packaging for cigarettes deferred their decision Thursday until a later date, yet to be decided. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-australian-court-defers-tobacco-packaging.html Health Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:26:00 EST news254024748 New Zealand announced plans Thursday to force cigarette firms to sell their products in plain packaging, following world-first laws passed in Australia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-zealand-cigarette-branding.html Health Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:25:37 EST news254024731 Australia said it was confident of seeing off a court challenge Tuesday by big tobacco firms over plain-packaging for cigarettes, in a test case being watched by governments around the world. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-australia-big-tobacco-firms-court.html Health Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:32:25 EST news253852333 Researchers in Australia on Monday called for health warnings on caffeine-loaded energy drinks following a spike in the number of people reporting medical problems after drinking them. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-australia-experts-energy.html Health Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:59:39 EST news245905148 The Australian government on Friday hit out at British American Tobacco for using images of kangaroos to sell its cigarettes in Europe, telling the company to "get your hands off our icons". http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-australia-fumes-kangaroos.html Health Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:00:01 EST news245641393 Global tobacco giant Philip Morris Tuesday stepped up its legal campaign against an Australian law banning logos and branding from cigarette packs, saying it had taken its case to the High Court. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-philip-morris-plain-australia.html Health Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:20:03 EST news243579340